Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
I should read further before shooting from the lip. However if this pertains to the setup in the previous paragraph, why didn't you put all the info in the one paragraph?
Haste. And trying to figure out what the story is with Mallory and the original device, and whether there was some active conspiracy or just corporate malaise (which is most likely). And trying to find the original news stories, which are only on microfilm it seems.
Mallory was apparently acquired by Dart Industires (formerly United Drug, which became Rexall, and ultimately the conglomerate, Dart Industries (Duracell, etc)... which merged with Kraft Foods in 1980. The companies were "demerged" in 1986, spinning off Premark International in the process, with Kraft retaining Duracell, which it spun off in 1988.
With all of that going on, it is not hard to imagine that a promising but undeveloped energy invention could get lost in the Boardroom shuffle.
If Mallory had acquired a license to the EV Gray Technology in '73 when oil was at its lowest level since before WWII (in constant dollars) and then got caught up in all of this merger-madness, it would not be surprising that they abandoned it... and sitting somewhere in a corporate warehouse is a working EV Gray machine.
Remember the ending of that Indiana Jones movie where the Ark of the Covenant is being haplessly stored-into-oblivion in some huge Army warehouse?
You might argue that "free energy" is always preferable to even cheap oil, but the practical problem with the Gray device is low battery life. The longest mentioned run was 200 hours. How many man-hours of engineering would it take to increase that by an order of magnitude?
Jones
